Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Italy turned up on the winning side in World War I, Victor Emmanuel reached modest heights of popularity. His subjects referred to him (fondly, at first) as il piccolo-The Little...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Il Trovatore, with Cloe Elmo, Stella Roman, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard Warren...
...waste of time for most high-school students to read Il Penseroso, Ivanhoe, Silas Marner and other compulsory classics. It would be enough for many to secure "sufficient competence in reading to comprehend newspapers and magazines reasonably well." Only a gifted few can achieve any real understanding of algebra or geometry. It should, therefore, be a matter of choice whether a student takes algebra, literature, Latin, foreign languages...
Even the Met didn't seem to know what it had in Cloe when she made her appearance as the gypsy in Verdi's Il Trovatore. She had come to the U.S. from Italy with a little opera company that was stranded, bankrupt, in Chicago last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). She had offered herself to the Met, passed muster at an audition and was launched without fanfare. She was somewhat dumpy of figure, but the audience soon forgave that: she could act and she could sing, with fire and with control. Of nine debuts so far, hers...
Last week, even the Supreme Court deserted the purists. Under a local law, the Monterrey firm of Guadelupe Gonzalez S.A. had been convicted of using the French phrase Modes comme il faut in its advertising. The court not only reversed this judgment but ordered the local authorities to let the firm alone henceforth. The Spanish language, said the court, had not been harmed, and besides, the firm had printed under the French phrase the Spanish words Modes como deben...